By real pause, I mean everything in the sim, including behind the scenes stops. Currently, the clock still ticks away in the background, and the sim is actually still ‘running’. Even after pressing ’ESC’ to the menu. Currently, there is no real pause function in MSFS, as we are used to in other sims.
It’s more of a position freeze than a pause in its current implementation. Not that this is inherently wrong, real world sims have position freeze function that are very useful.